Black faired Hornet wanted! [HELP!]

Hiya! I've spent two weeks now, and cannot find my perfect bike -
Hornet. Maybe anyone frfom you is selling yours or you know a
particular one which meets my criteria?

1) Under 10k miles
2) 2001 reg upwards
3) black and faired!!

I would really appreciate your help, I'm constantly monitoring gumtree,
biketrader and ebay and there is nothing there!! Where else can I look
for it?

Cheers
Morris

 

Assuming you mean a 600, there are at least four that fit your criteria
on Biketrader.

 

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/nav?a...ty_postcode=cm23+3hg&approvedDealer=&x=80&y=7

 

Yup, a 600

One is located in Northern Ireland, one is SORN and without tax, one
(from Giants) has been sold over a week ago.

M.

 

despite the load of old bollocks in the URL, MCN's website is too crap
to allow you to cut and paste URLs for search results.

Though you're right - a quick bikesearch reveals a few black faired
600 Hornets.

Though they're fag's bikes in any case.

 

Assuming you mean SORN & no MOT, I wouldn't let that put you off. Tell
him you'll have it if he MOTs it, or offer him 500 quid less without
MOT. It's a Honda, & the Reg/Rec isn't an MOT failure, so it'll be
fine...


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Phone a main Honda dealer and give them the spec. They'll be able to
search their own network.

 

Thanks for that, I texted him.

 

thanks for help, I think I'll do that as the one without MOT and TAX is
gone.

Does it make any sense of thinking about CBR600F when I'm interested in
medium/long/comfort trips ?

 

CBR600F is not a Hornet. I think the correct designation is CB600F with an
S suffix if faired.

Both CBR & Hornets are capable of covering long distances in relative
comfort, especially as you mentioned buying a Hornet with a fairing. You
also specified a post 2001 model which will have a 17" front wheel and IIRC
a slightly bigger fuel tank.

I owned a CBR600 and have ridden a few Hornets. My only criticism of them
for long distances is that you really need to rev the tits off them to make
good progress. This can make a long journey more tiring compared to riding
say a 1000cc big twin with similar bhp, as you have to keep dropping a gear
or two for overtakes and tight Alpine bends.

 

wessie came into sight through the beans and said

I've got the CBF600S which I use most days on a 100 mile round trip to
work. The seat gets a bit uncomfortable towards the end of the week, but
the econmomy is good, I tend to do A32 in the AM and M3 coming home and
get about 220 miles to the tank (19L). It does have to be said however,
that whilst I make progress, I'm fairly conservative about reaching
'progress' speed.

HTH

 

I'll let the developer know, he sits opposite me.

 

heh - I suspect it's session related. If it *isn't*, then he really
needs a slapping.

 

Highly likely given everything for the search appears to be in the
request.

Nah, he's a bloody good developer, so it's bound to be something
silly, or most likely, something that was suggested to Emap and they
decided wasn't in scope.